SERBIA | Country and Refugees Reality
In August 2017, we went to Serbia through ADRA Portugal and collaborated with the local delegation to understand and meet their needs. We visited 2 refugee camps and experienced the harsh reality, which is experienced by the refugees.
ADRA Community Center is supporting and providing spaces for sport as well, as football, basketball and volleyball also table tennis and football indoors. Every Wednesday the competition games are organized, and on the significant dates, the celebrations as well. The center is also organizing numerous life - skills and creative workshops, often having special guest from international or local community to help them.
ADRA Community Center is preparing its users for labor market, by investing in the development of their talents and providing them with economic empowerment. In cooperation with accredited institutions ADRA Serbia is providing Vocational Trainings, where they can acquire the necessary skills and knowledge on job working that can help them get employment in the future.
We interviewed the refugees and we know the reasons that led them from their country, the adversities they faced there, as well as those faced all the way to the refugee campe in Serbia, difficulties of staying there and the almost impossible entry into the EU.
According to the 4th June 2017 situation report nº57, total number of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Serbia was 6,618 people, 56% of them are children.
There are 18 refugee camps and most of refugees come from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq (according to “The UN Refugee Agency 6 August 2017”)
In February of 2017, ADRA Serbia, established a Community Center in Belgrade, in relative proximity to the Asylum Center Krnjaca. Now, every single day they are providing help in the ADRA Community Centre for more than 100 refugees.
ADRA Community Center in Belgrade is providing: school transportation, translators, psychologists, elementary school teachers, social workers, educational integration, languages, music IT and others.
During summer, the ADRA Community Center provides the Summer School that helps prepare children for the next school year.